![]() When I read about their first date and early courtship, the dynamic was such that Michelle wasn’t interested. I was fascinated with them as individuals. That’s rare in people you just meet on the street, let alone in public figures. There was that look they give each other - an authentic, real look of love even a sexiness. Tanne: Sometime back in 2007 or 200 8, when the Obamas first came on the national scene. Richard, when and how did it occur to you to tell this story? Vulture sat down with Tanne and his film’s Michelle and Barack, actors Tika Sumpter ( Gossip Girl, Ride Along) and Parker Sawyers ( Zero Dark Thirty), to discuss the fear and thrill of telling this story, why voice impressions had to be “dialed back,” and what they hope the Obamas will think (if they ever see the movie). It will also, as Vulture Kyle has pointed out, be one of few movies of 2016 to feature a black female lead, or two co-leads of color. The film has been compared, favorably, to Before Sunrise, and it traces the Obamas’ adorable very-first date, from clashing dessert choices and Michelle’s ample skepticism to holding hands during a screening of Do the Right Thing. They made, and make, a delightful couple, which is why filmmaker Richard Tanne decided to re-create the early days of their romance in Southside With You, which premiered this year at Sundance. In the summer of 1989, Robinson spent an afternoon with a charismatic, cigarette-addicted summer associate from Hawaii named Barack Obama, strolling the steamy streets of their beloved city. Once upon a time, there was a young, ambitious lawyer named Michelle Robinson from Chicago’s Southside, who lived with her parents to help care for her father, who ailed from MS. We’re republishing it today to coincide with the release of Southside With You. ![]() This interview originally ran during Sundance 2016. ![]()
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